In His Name, be He glorified!
My Dear, Loyal Brothers!
In the First Ray, the allusions the verse, Can he who was dead, to whom We gave life, and a light whereby he can walk amongst men…? makes to both the Risale‑i Nur, and with the word dead, with three powerful signs and connections, to these unhappy Risale‑i Nur students have been elucidated. Now, in the present events, one of those signs is being realized.
For, holding up life, civilization, and pleasure, those who oppress us accuse us of giving no importance to that style of life; they make charges against us, and even want to have us imprisoned with hard labour, or executed. But they can find no legal sanction for this.
As for us, we hold up death, the introduction to eternal life and its veil, and hit them over the heads with it to bring them to their senses, and work with all our strength to save them from true conviction, eternal execution, and everlasting solitary confinement. If I am given the severest penalties even because of the vehement treatises that were sent to Ankara but the people who mete out the penalties are saved by the treatises from the execution of death, both my heart and my soul will consent to it.
That is to say, we want life for them in both worlds and this is what we are seeking, but they want us to die and they are seeking pretexts for this. But we are not defeated before them, because the reality of death and thirty thousand human corpses daily display as clearly and visibly as the sun the proclamations and decrees for thirty thousand eternal executions and thirty thousand solitary confinements for the people of misguidance. Let them do what they want. According to jafr and abjad reckoning, the verse, It is the fellowship of Allah that must triumph has given us the good news, even in the twelve years of our most bitter defeat, of our victory together with its date. Since the reality is this, we shall from now on say the following, both to the court and to the people:
We are trying to be saved from death’s eternal execution, which awaits us ever before our eyes, and from the everlasting darkness of the solitary confinement of the grave, which opens its door to us and summons us ineluctably. We are helping you to be saved from that awesome, inevitable calamity. The questions of politics and this world, which in your view are the most momentous, have little value in our view and in that of reality, and are meaningless, unimportant, and worthless for those not directly concerned. Whereas the essential human duties with which we are occupied have a genuine connection with everyone at all times. Anyone who does not like this task of ours and wants to put a stop to it, should put a stop to death and shut up the grave!
The third and fourth points have not been written for now.